Re: VMS Pascal article

On 1/7/2025 3:16 PM, John Reagan wrote:

On 1/6/2025 5:52 PM, John Reagan wrote:

On 1/1/2025 11:12 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

VMS Pascal for C/Java/C# programmers:
      https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/articles/vmspascal.html
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It is a "pre-release" - I am not sure I got it right.
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So I would love some feedback.
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I'll look and give feedback.
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For modern OpenVMS usage, you might want to discuss how to get 64-bit pointers vs 32-bit pointers.  C has the pointer_size pragma to modify the "current pointer size".  Pascal uses the [QUAD] attribute in front of the pointer uparrow. There isn't a DCL qualifier (or module-level attribute) to control the default of 32-bits.  I'd add one now but who would use it?
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    ptr64 : [quad] ^integer;
    ptr32 :        ^integer;
 The compiler will call the appropriate Pascal RTL routine for NEW or NEW64 based on the pointer's type.

I have updated with a little section about this fun topic.
Arne